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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw

NUST Library Catalog

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

134 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 5.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw

1641 ms

iiiStyles.css

318 ms

styles.css

1259 ms

common.js

951 ms

ico_printer.gif

337 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw, 14% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 7.3 kB (27%)

Content Size

26.9 kB

After Optimization

19.6 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw main page is 26.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 17.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 9.7 kB
  • After minification 6.7 kB
  • After compression 2.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.0 kB, which is 31% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 7.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (38%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of NUST Library. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw

nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw

1641 ms

iiiStyles.css

iiiStyles.css

318 ms

styles.css

styles.css

1259 ms

common.js

common.js

951 ms

ico_printer.gif

ico_printer.gif

337 ms

logo_sm.jpg

logo_sm.jpg

2554 ms

ico_go.gif

ico_go.gif

353 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

background.gif

background.gif

637 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

16 ms

tile_vgradient.jpg

tile_vgradient.jpg

628 ms

buttonspritecap.gif

buttonspritecap.gif

671 ms

buttonsprite.gif

buttonsprite.gif

671 ms

styles_print.css

styles_print.css

319 ms

Accessibility Review

nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw accessibility score

70

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

nustlibrary.nust.ac.zw

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of NUST Library. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: